Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes / Benjamin Britten.

Philip Langridge delivers a searing performance as the title hero, a fisherman accused by a hostile community of causing the death of his apprentice. Patricia Racette is Ellen Orford, the woman who stands by him, and Alan Opie sings Captain Balstrode, the man who realizes he is unable to protect Pet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 (Composer)
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (Performer)
Other Authors: Racette, Patricia, 1967- (Performer), Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010 (Performer), Opie, Alan (Performer), Atherton, David, 1944- (Conductor)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1998]
Subjects:
Operas.
Live sound recordings > New York (State) > New York.
Live sound recordings
Operas
New York (State) > New York
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes! ; Peter Grimes, I here advise you ; The truth, the pity
  • Interlude 1: Dawn
  • Oh hang at open doors the net, the cork
  • Hi! Give us a hand!
  • Grimes, you won't need help from now
  • Let her among you without fault cast the first stone
  • Look! The storm cone!
  • And do you prefer the storm
  • Picture what that day was like
  • What harbor shelters peace
  • Interlude 2: Storm
  • Past time to close!
  • We live and let live
  • Mind that door!
  • Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
  • Old Joe has gone fishing
  • The bridge is down
  • Interlude 3: Sunday morning
  • Glitter of waves
  • A bruise-- Well, it's begun
  • This unrelenting work
  • Fool to let it come to this
  • We planned that their lives
  • Now is gossip put on trial
  • From the gutter
  • Interlude 4: Passacaglia
  • Go there! Go there!
  • In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home
  • Now! Now!
  • Peter Grimes! Peter Grimes!
  • Interlude 5: Moonlight
  • Assign your prettiness to me
  • Pah!
  • Come along, doctor
  • Embroidery in childhood
  • Mr. Swallow! Mr. Swallow!
  • Who holds himself apart
  • Interlude VI
  • Grimes! Steady. There you are.
  • Peter, we've come to take you home
  • To those who pass the borough sounds betray.

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